A comprehensive soundtrack for your holiday season, this three-disc set contains 30 Christmas selections performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Arts Ensemble. Here are such ...(Read More)

Just as surely as there's a time and place for Beethoven's fifth symphony, there are occasions that require peaceful music; the 19 selections on this two-disc set include such tranquil favorites as ...(Read More)

Whether you're sprawled on the beach or mired in rush hour traffic, classical music has a way of calming the nerves. This abundant six-disc set leads off with Barber's Adagio for Strings, and ...(Read More)

Bucking the stereotype of a seasonal album, Voces8 returns here with selections that paint a portrait of winter through ethereal new compositions and arrangements, invoking a feeling of solitude and ...(Read More)

With its ability to create a feeling of spirituality and community, choral music has always been a part of the Christmas experience. Fans of traditional Christmas carols will find much to savor among ...(Read More)

Celebrated worldwide for its exquisite classical albums (especially their renderings of songs by medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen), the Anonymous 4 now turns to American spirituals, folk songs, ...(Read More)

Taking its title from the final movement of Gabriel Fauré's stirring Requiem, this inspired compilation ranges from the Renaissance to the early 20th century and contains some of the most ...(Read More)

In his final work for orchestra, Johannes Brahms wrote a piece that required a superb violinist and cellist; fortunately Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis are more than up to the challenge of the ...(Read More)

From the early classical to the late Romantic period, this set hits many high points of European and Russian music. Works include the "Emperor" Quartet by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ...(Read More)

The 130-member boys choir at the cathedral of Essen is led by Georg Sump on these 20 holiday selections. Although "Stille Nacht" ("Silent Night") is featured here with such reasonably well-known ...(Read More)